Finance Operations Analyst

Role Summary

The role is a hybrid role, half FTE will perform clearing reconciliation jobs to better understand our business, another half FTE will perform clearing data analysis jobs to help finance team get better solutions.

The role will report to our FinOps Manager. As a Finance Operations analyst you will be expected to understand the intricacies of payment rules, regulations, and technologies and to support providing a best-in-class digital payment offering to our clients. You will work in a dynamic environment and be able to recommend and implement process improvements, work independently, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Our ideal candidate has experience working in a hyper growth atmosphere and a strong alignment to our values - being unconventional, staying user focused, creating value and thinking “ultra”. 

Responsibilities

• Data Controls and Analysis: Analyze extensive datasets, extract trends, and insights, ensuring accuracy and relevance to business needs.

• KPIs Tracking & Integration: Develop, track, and provide key performance indicators (KPIs) to enhance financial performance tracking and Integration of KPIs into FP&A models, ensuring that all business insights are based on data-driven analysis and up-to-date information.

• Business Partnering & Stakeholder Communication: Actively provide data-driven insights to key stakeholders, translating complex data into actionable recommendations. Contribute to solving strategic business decisions through continuous monitoring and reporting.

• Resolve variances through contacting internal and external stakeholders including Banks or Clients who are responsible for the team's service delivery within reconciliations.

• Be the single point of contact with senior business external stakeholders both internally and externally.

• Regular follow-up / escalation on the long-pending items for logical closure with respective teams within the company (Finance, Tech, Operations).

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into data-driven financial solutions. Identify opportunities to maximize revenue through rate fencing, upselling strategies, and segment-based pricing.

• Contributes to budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for Financial Planning, ensuring Excellence in Financial Performance.

• Work on cost optimization initiatives

Requirements

• Tools Proficiency is a must: SQL and VBA full proficiency, strong knowledge of BI tools (Looker, Tableau or PowerBI), Python is a plus.

• Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Data or related field.

• Professional Experience: 1+ years of experience in Business Analytics roles, either Product Analytics, Data and BI, or data-driven FP&A or Audit roles

• Analytical skills: very strong analytical skills, willingness to deep dive in large datasets and complex models, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights

• Ability to manage multiple projects and balance dynamic workloads and commitments.

• The ability to work independently and be a team player.